{"id":49914,"date":"2025-11-17T15:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49914\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:34:33","slug":"u-s-buildup-near-venezuela-sparks-hope-and-fear-among-exiled-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49914\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. buildup near Venezuela sparks hope and fear among exiled citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM<\/p>\n<p>U.S. buildup near Venezuela sparks hope and fear among exiled citizens <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORAL, Fla. \u2014 The United States\u2019 involvement in Venezuela is intensifying as the U.S. military continues to send warships and thousands of troops to the region, aiming to curb illegal drug trafficking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Analysts say the ultimate goal may be regime change targeting embattled President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Luis, a Venezuelan native living in South Florida, supports the mission to stop narcotics trafficking, saying Maduro \u201cwill always be a problem if he stays in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the same time, Luis expressed concern for his family still in Venezuela. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re scared of what could happen next,\u201d he said, noting that rising tensions have left loved ones anxious about their safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The conflict has escalated over the past few months, with many Venezuelans abroad closely monitoring the situation at home.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM U.S. buildup near Venezuela sparks hope and fear among exiled citizens DORAL,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-49914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}